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prerequisite | American Dictionary

prerequisite
noun[ C ]
us/priˈrek·wə·zɪt/
something that must exist or happen before something else can exist or happen:
Introductory physics is a prerequisite for any of the advanced courses in physics.

Examples of prerequisite

prerequisite
This baseline information is a prerequisite for understanding the role of crop field utilization by lepidopteran stemborers.
Therefore, a knowledge as accurate as possible of the radiative transfer inside disks is a prerequisite for their modelling.
All this suggests that dogs, and not only chimpanzees, possess prerequisites for taking an active role in dynamic, creative, coregulated interactions.
A prerequisite for this is a minimum of variation among hosts in the time from infestation to elimination of the parasites.
The existence of this common framework is the prerequisite of my case.
The balance between which measurements could be defined as prerequisites for the relief mission and which were additional science was difficult to achieve.
A prerequisite of studying these operators would be to enrich our tree model with fresh names.
High humidity is a prerequisite for tick survival since they are susceptible to desiccation when questing for hosts on vegetation.
Changes in antioxidant compounds or enzymes during seed development should also be regarded as a prerequisite for obtaining a vigorous seed.
Normalisation is an essential property of dependent type theories, and a prerequisite for decidability of type-checking and consistency proofs.
Being connected to the world is a prerequisite to individual globalization.
A prerequisite for geometric navigation of a mobile robot is a position-finding method.
Further more, this understanding is also a prerequisite for recommending changes that are suitable for incorporation into pastoral husbandry systems.
Some ground measures that are a prerequisite to strengthen the dispute resolution mechanism are suggested below.
Universality of markets, a prerequisite for the first fundamental welfare theorem, must also mean that bounds are adequately determined.
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